Atakan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hükümdar olan ata
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/atakˈan/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Atakan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.2Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hükümdar olan ata.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Atakan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #920 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | register #94 | Atakan | 113 |
| CY Cyprus | #952 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Atakan | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 224 | 1 in 77K | 224 | Atakan | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 143 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 497K | — | Atakan | 1 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 9 | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Atakan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, " Atakan, repleto, rebosante. Tranbie atakan dau " Totor Arr .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Atakan Alaftargilb. 1976TRTurkish Alpine skier (born 1976)
- Atakan Yükselb. 1985TRTurkish wrestler (born 1985)
- Atakan Cangözb. 1992TRTurkish association football player (born 1992)
- Atakan Karazorb. 1996DETurkish-German association football player (born 1996)
- Atakan Ekizb. 1996TRTurkish association football player (born 1996)
- Atakan Akkaynakb. 1999DETurkish-German association football player (born 1999)
- Atakan Ünerb. 1999TRTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Atakan Gündüzb. 2001TRTurkish association football player (born 2001)
- Atakan Mert Biçerb. 2005TRchess player
- Atakan Nuri Ordub. 2005TRTurkish association football player (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 224 | #2,716 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 181 | #5,784 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 143 | #985 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 9 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 3 | #1,019 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2000 | — | #94 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Atakan?
- In Turkish /atakˈan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Atakan a male or female name?
- Atakan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024).
- What does the name Atakan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hükümdar olan ata.
- In which country does Atakan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Atakan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled atakan.
- How common is the name Atakan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 224 people named Atakan, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Atakan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Atakan is the 920th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/atakanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Atakan” — the 920th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.